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Pro-Ject RM10 Turntable
Pro-Ject's flagship model, the RM10, reaches new heights of performance for products in this class. Its 10" carbon arm reduces tracing error to a minimum and deadens unwanted armtube resonance. Each record you play is thoroughly isolated by an acrylic platter on a magnetic bearing, a massive granulate-filled plinth, and the Ground-It isolation platform. This amounts to an ultra-quiet transfer of the signal, leaving you only with what's in the record groove.
Pro-Ject RM10 Features
10cc tonearm bearing comprises inverted, hardened stainless tips in ABEC7 spec ballraces
Headshell and conical armtube formed from a single carbon-fiber workpiece
Armtube allows adjustment of azimuth despite fixed headshell
Vertical tracing angle adjustable
Acrylic platter with perimeter belt-drive and brass record puck
Magnet supported, inverted main bearing with ceramic thrust-pad
Central metal block optimises center of gravity
Granulate-filled plinth and Ground-It Deluxe platform for universal damping
Sorbothane-damped aluminium cones
Drive motor housed in separate base
Gold-plated RCA phono sockets
Spirit level included
Pro-Ject RM10 Technical Data
Speeds: 33 and 45rpm
Effective tonearm length: 10" (245mm)
Effective tonearm mass: 9g
Overhang: 16mm
Supplied counterweight accommodates cartridges 6-9g
Optional counterweights accommodate cartridges 7-11g or 10-15g
Downforce range: 10-35mN
Speed variance: ±0.5 %
Wow and flutter: ±0.01 %
Signal to noise: -73dB
Platter weight/diameter: 5.4kg/300mm
Power supply type: Mains-fed outboard power supply 100-110V, 60 cycles
Output voltage: 16V/500mA AC
Power consumption: 2W
Dimensions of turntable: 480mmWx210Hx330mmD
Dimensions of Ground-It Deluxe: 500mmWx65mmHx400mmD (including cones)
Weight of turntbale: 14.5kg, motor unit 2kg
Weight of Ground-It Deluxe: 11.6kg
Offered w/Sumiko Blackbird for $3499 (call for availability)
Offered w/Sumiko Celebration II for $4499 (call for availablility)
Pro-Ject RM10 Brochure
Pro-Ject RM10 User Manual
Pro-Ject 10cc Tonearm Details
Acknowledgements
The Absolute Sound Golden Ear Award 2007
The Absolute Sound Ediitors Choice Award 2007
Stereophile Recommended Component, Class B 2007
Stereophile, Michael Fremer, November 2006
Immediately impressive was the RM 10’s quiet backdrop-a ‘blackness’ that permitted low-level details and micro-dynamic nuances to pour forth from the grooves . . . the first table from Pro-Ject that’s not merely a good value, but simply great!
Ultra Audio Review of Pro-Ject RM 10
The audiophile press tends to make its readers feel that if they can’t float $10k for a component, then they just can’t experience good sound. This is doubly true for turntables. While many reviewers pay lip service to inexpensive turntables such as the Rega P3 or any one of the many Pro-Ject ’tables in the same price range, they then go gaga for the latest and greatest Rube Goldberg complications, which start at the price of a small car and go up from there, through and past the luxury-wheels range.
Well, maybe they’re right and maybe they’re not. I’m betting that they’re not, because this here Pro-Ject RM 10 tells me, in no uncertain terms, that you need only $2499 to gain access to the real high-end world of vinyl reproduction. Now excuse me while I count my pennies to see if I can swing this upgrade.
Tone Audio Review of Pro-Ject RM 10
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